The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has asked the NTA (National Testing Agency) to explore and prepare new syllabus for the competitive examinations including NEET for entrance to medical colleges and JEE main for admissions to various engineering colleges for 2021. The National Testing Agency is asked to assess education situation across the state boards and other central boards before finalizing the syllabus.

Because of COVID-19 situation and disruption caused, most educational boards had reduced the syllabus by as must as 30% for class 10th and class 12th board exams. Based on this reduction, a reduction in syllabus for NEET and JEE is expected soon. NTA, after assessing the situation, will come out with detailed statement. 

Education minister is also holding a live session on twitter and Facebook on 10th Dec to answer questions from parents, teachers and students.